thyssenkrupp connected their machinery of the materials division via a new digital platform. Thanks to toii, all machines can communicate with each other. Due to predictive maintenance, the platform is also supposed to forecast the necessity of machine services in the future.

High-rise construction is catching up momentum with more and more sky scrapers of 300 m and above are coming up in India. With these high-rise constructions, Indian construction industry is gradually moving towards the next level of technology which has necessitated the use of new and improved construction equipment to meet the demand of safe and quality construction.

L&T Construction will develop a skill development training centre on the Nagpur Municipal Corporation´s abandoned school land at Babulban in East Nagpur. The corporation´s standing committee in a meeting has approved the proposal to lease out 75,000 sq ft land to L&T Construction for 30 years.

The current scenario seems encouraging with the construction equipment industry seeing considerable growth this year. With investments in infrastructure growth set to go up, the demand for construction equipment is set to rise further. We are already witnessing good growth from both earthmoving and road construction segments, especially from platforms like excavators and loaders.

Spartan Engineering Industries organised a customer meet in Mumbai under its Sparsh initiative, to bring its new range of machines in front of the customers. Spartan, a leading construction equipment manufacturer in India